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Six hundred and sixty two items have been added to the Pictorial
Survey collection during the year, which now totals 8741 views, mounted
in 58 albums; while the Library has been enriched by 111 volumes, making
a total of 6390 bound volumes, 78 vols. having been bound during the
year. In this connection, your Council cannot hide its disappointment
that so few members avail themselves of the privilege of borrowing books
for home-reading, only 181 volumes having been issued during the period
under review.
In conclusion, your Council regrets that, no doubt because of the
financial depression through which the country, and all of us, are still
passing, our Club, in common with other societies, has lately suffered an
exceptional number of resignations, in addition to the inevitable loss of old
members by death. The Council asks for the loyal and active co-operation
of individual members in making good this unfortunate wastage by the
speedy introduction of new members, in order that the manifold activities
of our Club may be maintained without interruption or diminution.
TRIAL BORINGS AT STRATFORD.
In connection with the River Lea Flood Relief Works now being
carried out jointly by the Lee Conservancy Board and the West Ham
Corporation, the Engineer, Mr. W. Lionel Jenkins, M.A., M.Inst.C.E.,
has kindly furnished the official particulars of eight trial boreholes put
down in the Lea Valley between Bow and Stratford. From these data
the following sections have been compiled:—
Borehole No. i. Mill Meads; near the Abbey Mills, Stratford.
Surface 5.67 ft. above O.D. Water level 10 ft. down.